The Muqaddimah : : An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition / / Ibn Ibn Khaldûn; ed. by N. J. Dawood.

The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of kn...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Princeton Classics ; 111
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Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • INTRODUCTION TO THE 2005 EDITION
  • FROM THE TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION TO THE 1958 UNABRIDGED EDITION
  • The Introduction and Book One of the World History, entitled Kitdb aWIbar of Ibn Khaldun
  • BOOK ONE. OF THE KITAB AL-CIBAR
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1. Human civilization in general
  • Chapter 2. Bedouin civilization, savage nations and tribes and their conditions of life, including several basic and explanatory statements
  • Chapter 3. On dynasties, royal authority, the caliphate, government ranks, and all that goes with these things. The chapter contains basic and supplementary propositions
  • Chapter 4. Countries and cities, and all other forms of sedentary civilization. The conditions occurring there. Primary and secondary considerations in this connection
  • Chapter 5. On the various aspects of making a living, such as profit and the crafts. The conditions that occur in this connection. A number of problems are connected with this subject
  • Chapter 6. The various kinds of sciences. The methods of instruction. The conditions that obtain in these connections
  • (CONCLUDING REMARK)
  • Index